search for pancreas

[Cornelius Krasel]

NICHOLAS THEODORAKIS (ntheo at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) wrote:
> In article <3ds2lf$ffs at ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
> Magid tabatabai <magid.t at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Couple of days ago, I was showing off the ease of access to information 
> >on Internet, to a friend of mine (Eurpean surgeon who is doing a 
> >reserach on pancreas in U.S.) 
> >He asked me to find any article related to pancreas.
> >
> >I used Archie and telneted to archie.internic.net , but doing a search 
> >on pancreas returned zero match.

Archie is probably not the best tool to localize topic-related information.

> Gee, I guess the power of the 'net has been oversold.  I just looked in 
> Medline (a database of medical and biological journals, commonly 
> available at many universities and medical schools) for "pancreas" and found 
> 7487 articles from 1990-1994 alone.

If you have WWW access you can check out subsets of Medline at the following
URLs:

http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:2555/r_medline.html
	Medline Subset Query Form
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Search/Entrez/index.html
	Entrez Browser

Enjoy!

--Cornelius.

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